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Webster 1913 Edition

Kava

Ka′va

,

Noun.

[Polynesian.]

(Bot.)

A species of

Macropiper

(

Macropiper methysticum

), the long pepper, from the root of which an intoxicating beverage is made by the Polynesians, by a process of mastication; also, the beverage itself.

[Written also

kawa

,

kava

, and

ava

.]